7^th International Conference on Pollution Control & Sustainable Environment March 02-03, 2020 Rome, Italy

Biography:

Statement of the Problem: According to the fifth assessment report (AR) by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPCC), global warming is a prevailing phenomenon throughout the globe. Global warming is causing alteration of the diurnal temperature range, as well as altered precipitation patterns. These patterns have relevant effects on biodiversity, ecosystem function, and community structure. To address sustainable management of its impact, numerous approaches have been employed. The purpose of this study is to describe the profile Ecosystem based Adaptation (EbA) in the natural infrastructure of marine and coastal ecosystems such as sea farms, marine protected areas, and cave ecotourism with the aim of improving biodiversity resilience.

Methodology & Theoretical Orientation: The selected data analysis that was used in this keynote focuses on our previous studies over the period 2000–2019.

Findings: The role of EbA, as known, is well-recognized at the international level under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity. Further, some of the main risks to biodiversity will also be presented, risks which have been experimentally shown to be more acute with increasing temperatures. Finally, we will point out our own methodologies showing how barcoding and assessment of reproductive health biomarkers serve as tools for strategic sustainability if well integrated with “citizen science”.

Conclusion & Significance: We concluded by identifying areas of agreement and points of departure from IPCC’s AR5. Taken together, the data obtained by our investigations reinforces the importance of biotechnological detection of cytochrome oxidase I as mitochondrial gene for species barcoding and antioxidants and fertility rate for assessment and awareness of the reprotoxicity risk posed by global warming. Furthermore, these tools include guidelines for mainstreaming ecosystem-based adaptation, enhancing resilience and providing evidence to help managers, communities, and decision-makers in their response to climate changes.

Abstract:

Giulia Guerriero received her Ph.D. at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, where she is currently Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Cytology and Advisory Board for the Center for Environmental Research. She performed her PhD and Post doc research work in USA. Her research efforts have focused on the correlation between oxidants and antioxidants in physiological defenses; on the role of steroid receptors in reproduction and on the importance of barcoding in the evaluation of species-specific molecular responses. She is currently conducting research on reproductive health effects of climate change, environmental pollution, sustainable economies and fisheries, and resilient systems. She has served in several working groups and technical committees and, as unit coordinator, in national and international projects. She is currently serving as Editor of several international journals. Since 2011 she is a representative of bilateral international agreements.

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Abstract:

Environmental exposures have serious health impacts on the population worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared Air Pollution to be the most hazardous environmental exposure, with ambient air pollution being responsible for 4.2 million premature deaths worldwide in 2016. Other environmental exposures, such as noise and airborne allergens, are also hazardous to health and in some cases even with synergistic effects. In assessments of health effects, environmental exposure at the address is often taken as a proxy for personal exposure. The detailed and personalized Danish population and health registers provide unique possibilities for assessing health effects of environmental exposures. The Novo Nordic foundation funded BERTHA centre (Big data center for EnviRonmenT and HeAlth (www.bertha.au.dk) will take environmental exposure assessment to a new level, accounting for time-activity patterns in the exposure assessments, taking a whole life-course approach, from conception until diagnosis. In this work, personal exposure monitors, mathematical exposure models, agent based modelling, and App driven registration of activity and wellbeing will, in combination with health related registry data, be used for assessment of the association between environmental exposures and adverse health outcomes. BERTHA links up to the Center for Integrated Register Based Research Aarhus University (CIRRAU) in which access to all Danish registries on health and population data is available for the entire Danish population at the individual level. In addition to air pollution, environmental exposures like noise, airborne allergens, quality of drinking water and access to green and blue space will be included in the analyses. Low-cost sensor based personal monitoring will be a strong element in the work, and this work has already been initiated. Three different cohorts will be included in the centre’s research: 110,000 people in the Danish Blood Donor cohort, the Run-safe cohort consisting of Danes using Garmin Devices, and a cohort of 8,000 patients with cardiac arrhythmia that have implanted Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD). The presentation will outline the planned and ongoing activities of the BERTHA centre and present some of the first results from application of the low-cost sensor based devices, exposure modelling, environmental geography and social-science as well as epidemiological analyses.